INTRO: | | % | | | % | | | % | | | VERSE From the playground to the wasteground Hope ends at 17 Sweeping floors and filling shelves Forced into government schemes Eleven years spent to dig out ditches Forget your schoolday dreams Guarantees and lie-filled speeches But nothing's what it seems Qualified and patronized With everything to lose Ooh, ooh, ooh INTERLUDE | | % | | | VERSE No choice or chance for the future The rich enjoy less tax Dress the girls in pretty pink The shit goes to the blacks A generation's heart torn out And covered up the facts The only thing they'll understand Is a wall against their backs The only hope now left for those With everything to lose With everything to lose With everything to lose Ooh, ooh, ooh SOLO | | % | | | % | | | % | | | VERSE (variation) In desperation’s empty eyes Signed up and thrown away There's drugs replacing dignity The short sharp shock repaid There'll be no money if you dare to question Working the Tory way The truth is up there carved in stone Where 21 dead now lay A family's loss for a few pounds saved With everything to lose With everything to lose With everything to lose With everything to lose Everything to lose | Ooh, ooh OUTRO (scat vocals ad lib) | | % | | | % | | | % | | | % | (repeat and fade)
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